Date: Wed, 24. September 2008 13:01:57

AP - North Korea barred U.N. nuclear inspectors from its main nuclear reactor on Wednesday and within a week plans to reactivate the plant that once provided the plutonium for its atomic test explosion, the chief U.N. nuclear inspector said.

Date: Mon, 13. October 2008 18:54:33

AP - The first photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il released in two months show him in a setting very similar to photographs from August.

Date: Thu, 25. September 2008 02:48:40

AP - North Korea moved closer to restarting its nuclear arms program Wednesday, barring U.N. inspectors from its main plutonium reprocessing plant and announcing it will reactivate the facility that provided the material for its atomic test blast.

Date: Sun, 19. October 2008 09:10:43

Reuters - North Korea could issue an important message on Monday, a Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday, although South Korea said no significant military moves have been detected in their communist neighbor.

Date: Fri, 27. June 2008 16:08:13

AP - It took years of talks, coddling and concessions to prod North Korea to step back from its decades-long effort to make atomic weapons, leading to Friday's dramatic destruction of its nuclear reactor cooling tower.

Date: Tue, 14. October 2008 07:03:20

AP - The North Korean trembled when he spotted the leaflet that had fluttered down from a balloon dispatched from the South. He snatched it, stuffed it into his pocket and ran to the bathroom to read it.

Date: Sun, 7. December 2008 02:19:19

AP - Government investigators digging into the grim hidden history of mass political executions in South Korea have confirmed that dozens of children were among many thousands shot by their own government early in the Korean War.

Date: Sun, 12. October 2008 12:03:47

AFP - North Korea said on Sunday that it would resume work to disable plutonium-producing nuclear plants and readmit UN inspectors after the United States removed it from a terrorism blacklist.

Date: Fri, 4. July 2008 19:12:28

Architect of Pakistan's nuclear program said Friday that it provided centrifuges to North Korea in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army under President Pervez Musharraf.

Date: Fri, 19. September 2008 20:47:27

AFP - The United Nations should set up a panel to investigate "severe" violations of human rights in nuclear-armed North Korea, an expert group said in a report Friday.